Re: [PATCH 2/2] HID: multitouch: enable the Surface 3 Type Cover to report multitouch data

[Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>]

On Jun 03 2016 or thereabouts, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 14:23 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 03 2016 or thereabouts, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 11:38 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > > > On Jun 02 2016 or thereabouts, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 16:11 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> 
> 
> > > > > I take linux-next + your two patches from this thread (+ some
> > > > > unrelated
> > > > > to HID patches).
> > > > 
> > > > OK. I think I know what happened:
> > > > - Microsoft forgot to put the Win 8 certification blob in this
> > > >   particular device (of course, because Microsoft)
> > > > - we do not detect it as a Win 8 certified and do not set the
> > > >   HID_QUIRK_NO_INIT_REPORTS flag
> > > > - your dmesg should show some error on plug, and then hid can't
> > > > set
> > > > the
> > > >   input mode
> > > > - I can't add a "if win 8 then show the mouse collection" because
> > > > your
> > > >   device doesn't report itself as win 8 :)
> > > > 
> > > > Anyway, could you try applying this small diff after my 2 patches
> > > > and
> > > > report if you now have a working touchpad?:
> > > 
> > > Nope. There is still no /dev/input/eventX associated with touchpad.
> > 
> > Weird. On my system, if I replay your logs, I see 4 new nodes:
> > /dev/input/event21:	Microsoft Surface Keyboard Keyboard
> > /dev/input/event22:	Microsoft Surface Keyboard Consumer Control
> > /dev/input/event23:	Microsoft Surface Keyboard Touchpad
> > /dev/input/event24:	Microsoft Surface Keyboard Keyboard
> 
> I had a line in dmesg that input8 is allocated to Touchpad, but no
> eventX (0..6 IIRC) from /dev/input reflects Touchpad events. I can get
> them only via /dev/usb/hiddev0.
> 
> > 
> > Can you attach the dmesg when plugging in the type cover?
> > 
> 
> I will do later, but there is no such thing 'plugging in'. It's a part
> of the notebook, so, I can do detach-attach cycle, though it shouldn't
> matter, it should work immediately after boot I suppose.
> 

Actually, if the touchpad doesn't want to be set to the multitouch mode,
we might as well take your v2 of your patch in addition to this series.
This should hopefully make the caps lock LED happy and at least enable
the mouse collection. If someone wants to debug why the device doesn't
want to switch to mt, I'd be happy to help/review patches, but I think
we might as well take the easiest path :)

So Andy, if you still have the energy for this:
please apply this series and yours
(https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9069371/)

And report if this is sufficient enough.

Cheers,
Benjamin